Disk wheel



u. H. PALMER.

DISK WHEEL.

APPLICATION FILED DEC.8. 1921.

1 ,420, 3 3 '7 I Patented J 11116 2% 1922,

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GEORGE H. PALMER, 0F LANSING, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO PAIL STEEL PRODUCTS COMPANY, OF LANSING, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

DISK WHEEL.

Specification of Letters Pat ent. Patented J 2Q 1922 Application filed December 8,1921. I Serial No. 520.956.

ture at small cost and having a demountable rim.

It has for a further object to provide a wheel of this nature of few parts, those readily assembled and the one disk, or it may be both disks, provided with radially disposed bulges or the like, adjacent the periphery for giving increased strength, allowing of the use of lighter material and yet obtaining maximum'strength and durability. The rim is demountable and is affixed in position by the means which serve to hold the peripheral edges of the disks in place.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

The invention, in its preferredform, is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawing. which, with the numerals of reference marked thereon. form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a face view of my improved wheel.

Figure 2 is a substantially central section, as on the line 22 of Figure 1, looking in the direction of the arrows, with a portion broken away.

Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Figure 4. looking in the direction of the arrows.

Figure 4 is a view looking in the direction of the arrow in Figure 3.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts throughout the different views.

In carrying out my invention, l take two disks 1 and 2 and provide each at the center with an opening 3. Within this opening T project in o posite directions the sleeves 4- and 5 which are substantially a tight fit within said openings. Each sleeve is provided with an annular flange 6, as seen in 1* igure 2, and these flanges are disposed side by side-1n close contact with each other and with the adjacent inner walls or faces of the disks. Suitable means, as rivets 7, are employed, paming through the flanges 6 and the adjacent port-ions of the two disks, as seen clearly in Figure 2. The central portions of the disks about the openings therein are inwardly dished, as seen at 8, and the r vets are confined Within such dished portions as will be clearly understood from Figure 2. Outward, beyond the dished portions the disks are outwardly inclined, as at 9. and thence converge, as seen at 10 in Figure 2, and at the periphery they are. brought together, as at 11, see also Figure 2, and thence flanged outwardly,as at 12. The one flange has an angled portion 13, as seen in Figure 2, while the opposite flange is formed without such angled portion.

One or both of the disks may be formed at intervals adjacent the periphery with the outwardly bulged portions 14, formed by pressing or stamping or otherwise, and these the plate 17 having an inwardly extended terminal 19 hearing against the disk. Suitahle means, as' bolts 20 and nuts 21 and rivets 22 are employed to secure these plates in position, the. said bolts and rivets passing through the plates and through the arallel portions of the disks, as seen in igure 2. and serving to hold the peripheral portions of the disks firmly together. as well as demountahly securing the rim in place. The rim is split. as seen at 22 in Figure 1, for an obvious purpose.

flanges and means passed through said flanges and members, said members being dished adjacent the openings therein and said means disposed within the dished portions.

2. A disk wheel formed of two substantially like members each with an axial opening and dished around said openings, sleeves inserted in the openings of said members and having flanges disposed between adjacent portions of'the members, said flanges being in close contact with each other and said members in close contact with said flanges and means passed through said flanges and members and disposed within said dished portions one of said members having radial bulges adjacent the periphery and each of said members flanged out wardly at the periphery to form a bearing for a rim.

3. A disk wheel formed of two substantially like members each with an axial opening, sleeves inserted in the openings of said members and having flanges disposed between adjacent portions of the members, means passed through said flanges and members, one otsaid members having radial bulges adjacent the periphery, the said members at their peripheries being formed with lateral flanges to form a ,rim support.

4. A disk wheel formed of two substantially like members outwardly flanged at their peripheries, a removable member engaging one of said flanges, and means passed through said member and the adjacent por tions of said members and securing the parts together.

5. A disk wheel formed of two substantially like members each formed at the pe-.

riphery with an outwardly extending flange, and one of said flanges having an angled portion, to engage a rim and a securing plate 

